Spell Checking In Blackboard Learn ... Customize It

Of course Blackboard (Bb) Inc., would have a Spell Check tool. But did you know that Bb allows each institution to upload their own dictionaries into Bb Learn to as long as it is formatted within the myspell or hunspell format. This gives each institution the option to make several different dictionaries in almost every language available to their students.

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Open Learning for Everyone: MOOCs

Open Learning for Everyone: October MOOCs



In most cases, you can register late. Expand your knowledge or become a life long learner through MOOCS on CourseSites. 



Coasts and Communities, UMASS Boston

Duration: 09/30-11/1 Register Now



Isocrates, University of Pittsburgh

Duration: 10/1-12/3  Register Now



Innovation & Design Thinking, University of Cincinnati

Duration: 10/7-11/24  

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VaBUG 2013 Conference Recap

If you were not in Richmond on Friday, October 25 attending the Virginia Blackboard User (VaBUG) Group's Annual conference then you missed a great learning opportunity. This year was more special because Blackboard, Inc (Bb) included the conference on their Never Stop Learning Tour.  Bb has over 17 stops on this years tour and has already talked with over 1200 clients.

The check-in process upon

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Integrating Training Into Bb With Atomic Learning

I arrived yesterday evening just in time to enjoy a nice dinner with Virginia Blackboard User Group (VaBUG) leader George Hoffman. It is funny, no matter how hard George & I try NOT to talk about work we always seem to end up doing it. We also had the pleasure of talking with fellow SU employee & VaBUG presenter, Don Silvus. You can see the all the presentations scheduled here.





Today,

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The System Administrator's Never Ending Struggle

System administrators, regardless of software application, struggle with the never ending issue of how to to apply upgrades or updates to their application when users want the application up 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365 days a year (24/7/365). In today's world, software is always improving and if a system administrator only has a one or two time slots to apply upgrades or updates to their

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10 Tips For Institutional Blackboard ROI

To students Bb Learn is a simply system to use and it will organize course content and keep them in consent contact with instructors and classmates. Well that is, if faculty actually use it and system administrators keep it tuned up and current.

Here are 10 tips on how every Blackboard (Bb) Learn instructor and/or organization leader can help their institution get a greater return on investment

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Pondering Technology Thoughts For October

Graphic From www.intelligentitnyc.com

I was reading the October 2013 (Vol.19 No. 10) issue of Redmond magazine about the Shattered Trust  (Click here to read) that some Information Technology (IT) decision makers are having now due to the revelations about the NSA's PRISM surveillance program and how many have stopped deploying enterprise cloud deployments.  Then I read this article about a

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Basics Requested Before New Features

I am hearing a lot of rumblings from the users I support that they want basic features or at least what they perceive as basic features to be what Blackboard Inc. adds into their Bb Learn platform. While my users do admit they would like screens to be more modernized and simplistic like Bb's competitors eventually, but what would impress them more is if Bb Inc would fix all the products known

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What is ... Flipping the Classroom?

This post is being reproduced from the monthly newsletter from the Instructional Technology Office at Lord Fairfax Community College.

Many educators are exploring and, in some cases, adopting the flipped classroom approach. This means that lectures and instructional materials are placed in an online environment and class time is reserved for strategies that pay off in learning, such as practice,

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Sometimes it takes a someone special to remind us!

Sometimes we take for granted what we have. Sometimes we get so tied up in daily work requirements, we forget what we admire about our employer. Sometimes we forget why we selected a university to attend or what makes that university special. Well today, Shenandoah University reminded me by helping Gabriella Miller meet her third Make-a-wish Foundation wish come true. 



When she was nine,

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Help, Blackboard Lost My Scroll Bar!

Has Blackboard Learn seemed to have lost your vertical scroll bar? Faculty quickly notice this in Grade Center but it can be seen in other areas also. Stop and ask yourself: Did I recently upgrade one of my web browsers? Oh, a web browser is Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Internet Explorer. Most likely, the answer is yes and that is why your vertical scroll bar has disappeared. So please, do not

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Uncrossed T's Cause Improvements To Be Lost

Blackboard Learn 9.1 users have been seeing some great feature enhancements from Blackboard, Inc. (Bb) over the last several months. Users are seeing these enhancements, along with new features, rolling out faster and with the building block (B2s) format. The faster delivery is something that CEO Jay Bhatt promised at the BbWorld user conference in July. These features are modernizing Bb Learn to

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Where's The Office?

Shenandoah University's  (SU) Institutional
Computing and Google have teamed up to add indoor floor plans of
Shenandoah University buildings to Google Maps. The indoor maps are
now available for 99% of the buildings. The remaining maps
should be completed soon.




These
new maps will allow SU's campus community members and university

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